The highest-profile NS-34 passenger was Justin Sun, a 34-year-old billionaire who founded the blockchain platform Tron. In June 2021, Sun won an auction for a seat aboard the first-ever crewed flight of New Shepard, plunking down $28 million. (He did so anonymously; we didn't learn that Sun posted the winning bid until December 2021 .)

Jeff Bezos’s Kent-based rocket technology company Blue Origin launched a crypto billionaire and five others into space Sunday morning.

Six more people have gone into space thanks to Blue Origin. The space technology company, founded by Jeff Bezos, brought another crew to space on Sunday, August, 3, including cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun.